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Key insights into how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics could reverse...
Credit: R. Parulan Jr./Getty ImagesAntibiotic resistance is a worldwide threat to human health and survival. Bacteria are changing in response to the extensive overuse of antibiotics in medicine and...
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While far from an anti-aging cure, injections of ‘master regulator’ stem...
Credit: Mansoreh Motamedi via Getty ImagesPicture two 80-year-old women. One is confined to a wheelchair, physically weak, and wholly dependent on her family for buying food, getting around, and...
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A Harvard engineering lab has been building a robotic bee for more than 25...
Credit: Yufeng Chen/Harvard SEASFor more than 25 years now, a quiet little design lab at Harvard has been working on a unique robotics project — perfecting the world's first and only RoboBee....
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Predicting the timing and magnitude of earthquakes — a technology long...
Credit: Gary S. Chapman via Getty ImagesA massive, 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City in September, killing 370 people and injuring more than 6,000. Few experts in the field of seismology...
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Researchers used non-invasive, cosmic-ray imaging to locate the structure,...
Credit: Mekhamer Photography via Getty ImagesThe Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. While erosion has reduced its initial 481-foot height to just over 455...
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More than 500 scientists contributed 27,000-plus samples of the world’s...
Credit: Earth Microbiome ProjectWant to know where a type of bacteria originated? Now there’s a map for that. After a massive, multi-year effort, scientists have assembled a detailed chart of where...
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The Jackson’s Climbing Salamander was last seen in 1975, and conservationists...
Credit: Carlos Vasquez AlmazanA lost species of salamander has been rediscovered alive and well in Guatemala. The Jackson's Climbing Salamander (Bolitoglossa jacksoni), a brilliant yellow-and-black...
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A coastal migration into North America along the Pacific Rim could be the...
Credit: Edward S. Curtis, Wikimedia CommonsA conventional belief about the first settlement of the Americas holds that people with ancestry from Siberia in northeastern Asia traveled into North...
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Some astronauts have experienced eyesight problems after going to space, and...
Credit: NASAMany astronauts have experienced problems with their eyesight in during missions to the International Space Station and after their return, and NASA has been closely investigating the...
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When dinosaurs died out, many mammals evolved from being nocturnal to...
Credit: Mark WittonNot all was doom and gloom after dinosaurs went extinct around 65 million years ago. Before that time, when Tyrannosaurus rex and other large predators lurked, mammals were mostly...
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The technology could help reduce the spread of infectious disease in regions...
Credit: University of South FloridaBrazilian favelas, Indian slums, South African townships, and other crowded, impoverished regions of the developing world often sport electricity, mobile phone...
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MIT undergraduates have developed a process for strengthening concrete — a...
Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesIt's a familiar refrain in engineering circles — in any industry, really: You never know where the next big idea is going to come from. An undergraduate class...
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The new findings suggest that hydrothermal activity may have taken place on...
Credit: NASAIn 2005, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft identified geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus that were blasting plumes of ice and vapor into space. Now a new study suggests that the secret to these...
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Although phasing out the chemicals that caused the ozone hole has led to...
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterHigher temperatures over Antarctica this year shrank the hole in the ozone layer to the smallest it's been since 1988. The ozone hole is a depletion of ozone...
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Medical studies authored by women are more likely to include an analysis of...
Credit: Ulrich Baumgarrten via Getty ImagesA new analysis of 1.5 million medical papers shows studies co-authored by women are more likely to address gender and sex differences when it comes to...
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Experience what it feels like to climb Mount Everest.
Related VideoSeeker has partnered with virtual reality studio, Sólfar Studios, to create an expansion of their award-winning immersive experience Everest VR. The Seeker Expedition mixes elements of...
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Research on butterfly mimicry sheds light on how the evolution of beneficial...
Credit: Matt Wood, University of ChicagoRed-bodied swallowtail butterflies look so delicate and beautiful that their discoverers named them after flower colors, such as crimson rose. But these...
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Sunlight and common metals can break down carbon dioxide and produce methane...
Credit: Ezra Bailey via Getty ImagesResearchers in South Korea say they’ve found a promising way to produce fuel from a greenhouse gas by using sunlight and common metals to convert carbon dioxide...
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A star-forming galaxy 12.8 billion light-years away offers insight into the...
Credit: NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch, University of California, Santa Cruz; R. Bouwens, Leiden University; and the HUDF09 TeamAstronomers have confirmed the discovery of one the...
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Astronomers have found a dusty ring around Proxima Centari, which might mean...
Credit: ESO/M. KornmesserThe nearest alien planet to Earth may not be an only child. Astronomers have spotted a dusty ring around the nearby star Proxima Centauri, hinting at the existence of other...
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